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This is a shortened form of the famous legend of the Nibelungs of Germany. The story is shortened into 5 sections for students to read and have a vocabulary presentation for each section. I’ve also made a background knowledge reading and research piece to help students understand more of the historical background of the piece. I’ve also included a video project guide and final test.
Would take about 25 minutes a day for about 7 days or you could chunk it into a longer period of time. I like to break it up.
Also…there is a movie you can buy that is pretty good and fun to watch afterwards!
The story is fun and historically interesting.
Viel Spass!

Prepared for an A level speaking presentation on the Grimm Brothers and their works. Speaking assessment model for a presentation on the Grimm Brothers and Aschenputtel/other stories. Aligned for AQA speaking assessments 2018.

I have prepared the full reading text with glossary of vocabulary of the story of Cinderella - 'Aschenputtel' from the Grimm Tales for A level students, useful as a reading/text analysis activity for a speaking presentation or written task. Links to the current 2018 AQA German syllabus.

This resource is a video guide to go along with the German version of Despicable Me (Ich Einfach Unverbesserlich). I use it in higher levels of German (levels 3-5). The guide is written entirely in German.
The guide is 2 pages long, includes 20 questions and 1 essay question. The grammatical structures in the questions include the narrative past tense, subjunctive, opinion statements and infinitive clauses.
The document is in Word format for customization by the teacher.
I show the movie over 3-50 minute class periods with a break at the end of each period for the students to work on the video guide. On the last day they do the essay.
See my other German resources
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Including as many essay titles as I could find for both AS and A level (not many yet), this booklet is a first go at making one and has elements of ideas that I got from other people in it too. No claim to perfection and I would be very happy to hear other people's ideas as mine are drying up through exhaustion! I hope it helps someone else starting to teach the film.

Writing essays on films is a skill which students often struggle with, and it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what students need to do to improve their essays and get better marks.
This is a sequence of exercises which lead students toward writing their own paragraphs which would score highly in the A Level exams by drawing evidence from the film and analysing it. The exercises will also deepen students' understanding of aspects of the film 'die fetten Jahre sind vorbei', and give them valuable practice of analysing the characters, events and themes of the film.
Answers to the exercises are included (but for the full paragraph exercises, clearly many answers are possible).

I use this article in my level 4 class to start talking about what Fasching (Carnival) or Karneval is in Germany.
The article is written for native German elementary school kids, yet the language level is best suited toward more advanced language students. You could use it in level 3, overall a A2 early B1 language level.
This resource includes:
- The 1 page article in PDF format
- A target vocabulary Word Cloud
- Before and after reading questions
Questions are in power point so you can customize them.
Takes about 45 minutes if teacher lead and discussed. Students work independently and turning the assignment in would take about 30 minutes.
I'll be posting more Fasching resources soon. Please check my store.
You can also check out my other German Resources:
German Studies: Language, History and Culture
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I use this article before doing a fun unit on German folk dancing.
Have upper level German students read about how dancing affects people by reading this article. The article is an interview conducted by Der Spiegel. It makes light of the benefits of dancing.
This resource includes:
- The 3 page article in PDF format
- A condensed article version that is 1 page long
- A target vocabulary Word Cloud
- Before and after reading questions
Questions are in power point so you can customize them.
Takes about 1- 50 minute period.

This is a set of 11 short stories in German that are sayings meant to teach a moral or vocabulary puzzles that have students try to decide what is being described.
These would good for students with some German background. Levels 2-3 or A.2.
See other Hin and Her German Short Story Resources
From the Hin und Her collection of German short stories, which played a key role in maintaining and developing the German language of the US German population during the highest years of immigration.
I've included the original text and have added images, a key vocab section and follow up questions to extend vocab aquistion and grammatical knowledge.
Easy to use in any beginner level course. They would take about 15 minutes each.
PDF and Word Format.
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